Subject: Angels Eight - Normandy Air War Diary
From: "Keith Willshaw"
Date: 10/10/03 1:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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"Dave Clark" wrote in message
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"Angels Eight -- Normandy Air War Diary" by David W Clark

Many are surprised to learn that the fierce battle in the skies over the
Normandy beaches was much like the Battle of Britain -- both in duration,
about 80 days, and in severity, about 3,000 aircraft shot down. Squadron
records of German and Allied units in the Normandy Campaign reveal details
of nearly every aerial encounter that occurred and the pilots who flew
them.
In addition, read about the day-to-day lives of the members of one RAF
Commonwealth wing operating from French soil as described from squadron
records and in the words of their pilots' combat reports. This is a book
filled with factual detail written by one whose brother fought and died in
the Normandy Air War.

Read all about it and order it from:

http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/14969


I can believe it readily enough

Between January 1944 and the end of May the Luftwaffe lost
over 6400 day fighters, 80% of them on the western front and
the Reich

Between June and October losses soared to almost 7500 with
6500 being lost to US and Commonwealth forces.

You may also want to look at

The Luftwaffe, 1933-45: Strategy for Defeat
(Brassey's Commemorative Series, Wwii)
by Williamson Murray


Keith


It was
after all part of the allied strategy to draw the Luftwaffe into Battle
and destroy it


All over Normandy???? I seriously doubt it. There was barely a German plane
in sight over Normandy.

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer